I don’t know if you’re making fun of me, but, seriously, for me Wikipedia is an enormously valuable resource, much more than, for instance, YouTube (which I use, maybe, twice per year).
Some folks enjoy reading articles. Some folks enjoy to watch, listen and read (captions) at the same time. Some folks rather ask around and learn through conversations.
I’ve understood that it’s generally easier to learn new things when you use many different channels (audio, imagery etc). To many people but not to all.
I use Wikipedia a LOT, but I use YouTube for hours every day and this is funny to me. Twice a year? You’re not outright boycotting, but you really find it so useless that you only go there twice a year? Wild.
Indeed. In first instance, I don’t really enjoy watching random videos. Additionally, if I look for technical tutorials or the likes, I prefer to get them in written format. Video is an extremely inefficient format for the kind of info I search on the internet.
There are so many topics that are easier to consume in writing than video.
Why would someone film a bunch of code? Now I can’t search it, scroll through it or even copy it.
I remember in the mid-aughts my brother hacked his iPod — the wheel kind, this was pre-iPhone — to hold the entirety of the text of English Wikipedia at the time.
This seems extremely small to me. You mean to tell me millions of articles, pieces of information, and the pictures/sounds/videos to accompany them all take up less data storage space than Red Dead Redemption 2?
It’s less than 90 gig to do a full backup. I can have the sum total of human knowledge on a 1TB external SDD, and still have room for Skyrim and my modlist.
Wikipedia is the only piece of the internet I would save from apocalipse. Like, seriously.
Yeah, I have Wikipedia saved to a portable hard drive… Just in case
I don’t know if you’re making fun of me, but, seriously, for me Wikipedia is an enormously valuable resource, much more than, for instance, YouTube (which I use, maybe, twice per year).
There is a lot of People with a copy of Wikipedia, it only takes 8GB. Just for the case something happens. I dont think he is making fun of you.
Edit: this 8 GB was 10 years ago. From another article from 2022 it says 150Gb.
Some folks enjoy reading articles. Some folks enjoy to watch, listen and read (captions) at the same time. Some folks rather ask around and learn through conversations.
I’ve understood that it’s generally easier to learn new things when you use many different channels (audio, imagery etc). To many people but not to all.
I use Wikipedia a LOT, but I use YouTube for hours every day and this is funny to me. Twice a year? You’re not outright boycotting, but you really find it so useless that you only go there twice a year? Wild.
Indeed. In first instance, I don’t really enjoy watching random videos. Additionally, if I look for technical tutorials or the likes, I prefer to get them in written format. Video is an extremely inefficient format for the kind of info I search on the internet.
There are so many topics that are easier to consume in writing than video. Why would someone film a bunch of code? Now I can’t search it, scroll through it or even copy it.
Wasn’t making fun of you, just agreeing with you and telling you my fix
I remember in the mid-aughts my brother hacked his iPod — the wheel kind, this was pre-iPhone — to hold the entirety of the text of English Wikipedia at the time.
How much data does it use?
According to my app, the whole English Wikipedia with pictures weighs 102.62GB, down to 60,06GB without.
There’s also a mini version that weighs 58,29GB but I don’t know what it contains
Wikipedia 1m Top Articles weighs 43,53GB
kiwix
Any idea how the 8gb from another comment might be achieved?
Edit: I guess zipping it should work pretty well
TBH I have no idea
I just took a look at what my app is saying, but I didn’t dig into it
It’s probably only the text. Images and videos weigh a lot more than text.
60GB is still more than 8GB
The other comment checked a 10 year reddit link but didnt notice the date untill it went to search for it again because of this thread. Dumbass!
Source: it was I, the guy that did the comment.
This seems extremely small to me. You mean to tell me millions of articles, pieces of information, and the pictures/sounds/videos to accompany them all take up less data storage space than Red Dead Redemption 2?
It’s less than 90 gig to do a full backup. I can have the sum total of human knowledge on a 1TB external SDD, and still have room for Skyrim and my modlist.
Even less so if you exclude images
Those images are important, I would keep them. Wikipedia just scrapes the surface of information, a picture can give a bigger insight.
True, if you have the space by all means
Is there an easy way of doing a full backup?
Funnily enough, wikipedia has the answer
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
ah I see, ty lol
That’s interesting
That’s only the text without any media. If you wanted to save all media on Wikimedia Commons, that would be about 420tb.
You get the images, just not audio or video files.
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It would also be nice to have a p2p service still up in the internet apocalypse to share all the things we have left.
Could work like the underground networks in Cuba (I say underground but apparently there’s wires everywhere?)
What if you need to remember how to procreate? I hear there are a number of informative videos about how to out there.
But there aren’t on YouTube :-P
I bought an app by Wikimedia CH that allows to download the whole thing. It’s called Kiwix.
you “bought” kiwix? AFAIK it’s free
There is a paid version on the Mac AppStore to support the project